--- title: Asking for help is not weak or babyish; adults ask for help all the… — Trusted adults and asking for help · tree and pragmatics description: Asking for help is not weak or babyish; adults ask for help all the time, and a problem shared early is usually much easier to fix. Who acts: Asking, adults, problem. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Asking, adults, problem), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:056-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help.lesson:2 # text = Asking for help is not weak or babyish; adults ask for help all the time, and a problem shared early is usually much easier to fix. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 056-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 babyish babyish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 16 det:predet _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 21 shared share VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 22 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 usually usually ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 much much ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 conj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 fix fix VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | Asking | | | | | weak *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | Asking *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | adults | | | | time | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **share** | participle | | a problem *not said here* | | | | early *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | present | a problem | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **fix** | to-infinitive | a problem *not said here* | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:056-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help.lesson:2`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Trusted adults and asking for help, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/1/) - next →: [Trusted adults and asking for help, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/)